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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
3
A collection of satirical remarks on current events and figures. The piece mocks railroad raises, Prohibition era debates, and political figures like Villa and LaFollette, with jabs at Chicago whiskey culture, Texas politics, and stock market antics. It ends noting the Sun and Dallas News priced at $2.25.
A string of light humorous sketches and domestic quips unfold from a mall restaurant lunch miscue to Bible lesson humor, a horse hair mishap, and a twilight gate scene where a proposal hesitates amid social propriety.
A patient undergoing appendicitis surgery endures repeated errors as each of three doctors loses a sponge, a needle, and a pair of scissors. After each mishap the patient is opened and closed again, prompting a wry plea for mercy and even a joke about buttons.
Advice urges boiling new shaving brushes or soaking four hours in 10 percent formaldehyde liquor at 110 degrees to guard against anthrax. The warning notes post 1914 hair sources from Russia and China linked to cases, with a high fatality rate and low human susceptibility.
The Kansas City Star notes Jas M Cox turned $2000 of his own and $15000 borrowed into a publishing empire with Dayton and Springfield papers and an artistic building. The Waco Times Herald lauds Cox as a rising business leader and potential president, citing rapid wealth growth and varied success in publishing farming lawmaking and governance.
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